I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Nothing will work unless you do.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I’m perpetually lonely.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Of course, I do everything for money.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

A leader is a dealer in hope.